Virginia Dare, the first Anglo child born in North America, sustained herself on nuts, berries, and product endorsements. ( Virginia Dar...

(Albuquerque Journal) Lee Francis and writing are a match made in heaven. The Albuquerque-based writer was chosen to work on the graphic no...

(Library of Congress) (Daily Beast) In discussions of great American writers who were also military veterans, the name Edgar Allan Poe i...

(NYTimes) After five teenagers defaced a historic black schoolhouse in Virginia with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti last year, a judge h...

(Lost Bookseller) Hastings, the country's third largest book retailer, has gone under. Hastings management blames the internet, but the...

(City Paper) ... To read “Happy Days” in Baltimore is a disorienting experience. Mencken brings the city, especially Hollins market, to s...

  “For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o’c...

   The men who fought there Were the tired fighters, the hammered, the weather-beaten, The very hard-dying men. They came and died A...

  (NYTimes) ... Just as military contractors, air traffic controllers and federal workers are coping with the grim results of a partisa...

  (YDR) York, PA - Author Rita Mae Brown believes the past is prologue. If you don't know where you came from, you don't know w...

(Wikipedia) John Henry O'Hara (January 31, 1905 – April 11, 1970) was an American writer born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He initiall...

York, PA (YDR) Friends of Camp Security are hoping that a man who's been dead for 183 years will help them raise money to purchase the ...

(Wikipedia) - Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (July 24, 1900–March 10, 1948), born Zelda Sayre in Montgomery, Alabama, was a novelist and the wife ...

(Wikipedia) Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and writer, primarily of books for young audiences...

  (Wikipedia) Lewis "Lew" Wallace (April 10, 1827 – February 15, 1905) was a lawyer, governor, Union general in the American Ci...

(Wikipedia) Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 Depew, New York – February 13, 2010 Baltimore, Maryland) was an American writer and educator fro...

(NYTBR) The historian Daniel Boorstin once complained to me about the Smithsonian Institution’s decision in 1980 to delete the final two wo...

(Baltimore Sun) Calling all literati and English majors with decent paychecks: You have a chance to own a home once graced by F. Scott and ...

(LoC) After capturing Washington, D.C. in 1814, the British burned the U.S. Capitol, destroying the Library of Congress and its 3,000-volum...

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